Bloomy Controls used NI Single-Board RIO contained in a backpack to develop a portable data acquisition system that monitors power consumption of devices carried on and by a person. Devices contained in the backpack are directly wired to custom NI CompactRIO modules. Devices that cannot be tethered use custom wireless Bluetooth slave sensors to communicate over a piconet with the NI Single-Board RIO Bluetooth master. Data and status are transmitted to a PC-based application for data storage, analysis, and display using a Wi-Fi bridge.
